Portable lamp



THEODO'RE H. FROEHLICH, vor NEWYORK, N. Y.

PORTABLEA LAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Mar. 9-,`1920.

Application led May l16, 1919. Serial No. 297,572.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEoDoRE H. *FRoEH- LICH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Portable Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

The invention is a device for securing a lamp-preferably an electric glow lampto VVthe forehead of the user, so that by thenlight projected upon any desiredspot he can examine any object there illuminated and be free to use both hands in performing work thereon, The invention consist-s in the construction, hereinafter described, whereby the device is simplified and cheapened, and whereby it can be securely attached and adjusted in place.

In the accompanying drawings* y' Figure 1 shows my portable lamp and support therefor in position upon the head of the user. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device.

Similar numbers of reference indicate like parts.

1 is a band of any suitable flexible mate# rial. 2 is a plate which may be of metal,

. fiber or the like, and which is preferably slightly bent to suit the conformation of the wearers forehead. In said plate near the ends thereof are transverse slots 3, through which said band passes. The plate is slidable upon the band, and the band and its receivingopenings in the plate are preferably to be of such width as that the band will cover the greater portion of the inner face of the plate` and so serve as a resilient covering for. said plate .to prevent contact of said greater portion thereof with the forehead of the wearer. 4 is a plate similar to plate 2. One end of the band 1 is secured to one end of said plate 4 preferably by passing it through one of the slots 7 1n said plate and securing the overlapping extremity to the body of the band by a rivet,

5 as shown at 6. The other end of band vl passes through both slots 7 in plate 4, and 1s thus adjustably held in said plate to enable the band to be drawn closely around thehead of the wearer in order to retain the device in lace thereon.

y'Upon t e front face of plate 2 'are two lugs 8, each having a circular openmg. 9 1s lceive the clamping nut 12.

a' cup-shaped reflector having on its vrear side a preferably rounded lug 10, with a circular opening, which lug is received between the lugs 8, the openings in said three lugs then registering and receiving a headed pivot bolt 11 threaded at one end to re- The reiiector can thus be adjusted up and down vat any desired angle to plate 2 and secured in adi justedposition by setting up said nut 12.

Within the reiector is secured any suitable support for the lamp. Said support may be. a socket 14 of usual construction adapted to receive an electric. glow lamp 15, the circuit wires supplying the lamp being shown at 16. l i

Attention is directed to the simplicity and- -consequent cheapness of this construction.

and blow lamps, sockets, bolts and nuts ofl standard types are easily obtainable in the market.

While the device may, of course, be utilized in any desired way, it is especially intended for use at night or in dark garages for examining the parts of automobiles for purposes of inspection, repair or adjustment. In such case the circuit wires can readily be attached to any current outlet, to thev usual electric lighting battery 'present in the machine or to a pocket storage battery car` ried by the user. Both hands of the operator are left free to do whatever work may be necessary. As the plate 2 is normally free to slide on the band 1, it is immaterial what position it takes along said band when thedevice is not in use, since it can readilybe slid to desired place, after which the tightening of the band by drawing it ythrough plate 4 presses said plate 2 as closely as desired against the forehead, and so retains it against displacement.

I claim:

A device of the class described, comprising a plate of metal or the like adapted to fit upon the person of the user .and having a slot approximating in length the width of said plate near each end, a lamp support on In testimony whereof I have affixed my said lnlate between sang;1 slctls, i lmp casignature in presence of two Witnesses. ried y sai support, a exi e an exten ing through said slots and covering the rear THEODORE H FROEHLICH side of said plate between said slots, and Witnesses:

means for securing together the ends of GERTRUDE T. PORTER,

said bend. May T. MGGARRY. 

